Manager, Verticals & Special Projects

Manager, New Verticals & Special Projects

Little Spoon was founded on the belief that today’s parents are different – equal parts more time‑strapped and more food‑savvy than ever. We disrupted a century‑old category by delivering on what the modern parent deserves.

We’re seeking a highly versatile Manager, New Verticals & Special Projects to join our Business Operations team. This hybrid role, reporting directly to the Chief of Staff, will act as the connective tissue that ensures launches are tight, performance is visible, and leadership has the data and structure to move fast and effectively. If you thrive as a generalist – comfortable switching between analytical work, strategic deck building, execution, and cross‑functional project management – this is the role for you.

• Share weekly performance snapshots and campaign dashboards with leadership to drive visibility and agile decision‑making.
• Lead the creation of monthly buyer readouts, IRI performance synthesis, and retail performance storytelling.
• Develop repeatable templates and structures for ongoing performance reporting and buyer materials.
• Support new retailer launches through modeling, scenario planning, and business case development.
• Build decks and materials that synthesize insights, performance, and strategy for internal leadership and transform data into crisp narrative and insights for external audiences.

• Support all retail marketing and go‑to‑market work streams across Target, Amazon and future retail partners (e‑commerce + in‑store).
• Build and manage GTM calendars, promotional timelines, and execution plans; align agencies and internal teams and hold stakeholders accountable.
• Centralize and route retail marketing requests (from promos to in‑store marketing), ensuring clarity, speed, and brand alignment.
• Manage day‑to‑day agency and platform relationships (shopper, Roundel, TPA, and retail media partners), ensuring all programs launch on schedule and deliver against performance goals (ROAS, CTR, conversion).
• Structure and manage internal cross‑functional processes across Retail, Marketing, Strategy, and Ops (promo calendars, in‑store marketing, reset timelines, ISM coordination, cross‑functional meeting cadences).
• Identify bottlenecks and implement systems to help teams operate more efficiently.
• Analyze POS, retail media, and paid campaign performance data (ROAS, CTR, conversion, velocity, household penetration) to identify trends, insights, and optimization opportunities.
• Manage retail marketing budget trackers; monitor spend and flag reallocation opportunities based on performance.

• Support Chief of Staff with ad‑hoc financial and business modeling across new launches, promotion planning, resets, and commercial planning.
• Pressure‑test P&Ls, validate assumptions, and partner with Finance and Ops on margin and cost‑structure opportunities.

• Act as a force multiplier and operate as a true extension of the Chief of Staff and CEO on priority initiatives – conducting analysis, preparing executive‑level materials, and driving execution on high‑impact, time‑sensitive projects.
• Prepare concise briefs, meeting prep, and internal comms that allow Chief of Staff and CEO to move faster.
• Support the execution of high‑priority growth initiatives, working directly with Chief of Staff and CEO.
• Absorb some of the miscellaneous special project executional work that sits between retail, strategy, ops, and marketing – connecting dots across the organization.

• Strong grasp of financial statements, business case modeling, channel economics, and commercial planning.
• Data‑driven; confident pulling reports, analyzing velocity, and able to distill complex problems into clear recommendations.
• Polished communicator with the confidence to interface with buyers, agencies, and senior leadership.
• Strong project management skills – highly organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Comfortable moving fluidly between decks, models, processes, and execution.
• Scrappy, resourceful, and excited to build –…